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Y ASHSIPTING SHOVBL No, 281,012.. Patented July 10, 1883.

TEUHE HELM-:LE E' UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEANDER S. BROWN, OF SHARPSBIIRG, PENNSYLVANIA.

ASH-SIFTlNG SHOVEL.

SPECIFICATIGN forming part of Letters Patent No. 281,012, dated July 10, 1883u Application filed January 8, 1583. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ wiz/0111, it may concern:

Beit known that I, LEANDER S. BROWN, a citizen ofthe United States, residing at Sharps burg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Ash-Sifting Shovels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Figure 1 is aplan View of my improved ashsifting shovel. Fig. 2 is a side view of same.

The obj eet of this invention is to produce an ash-sifting shovel for domestic use which will be light, cheap, and durable, and by the use of which the ashes may be rapidly and effectively siited and all the unburned coal returned to the fire. This object and advantages I secure by making the fhandle and shovel-frame of one piece of Wire, bent, shaped, and twisted by machinery, thus producing a cheap, light, and elegant handle and frame. The blade is made of Wire-cloth, cut into shape and Woven onto the handle by machinery. The lip is made of sheet metal punched andbentto shape and pressed onto the front of the Wire-cloth and around the wire handle. The Whole shovel is then pnt under a drop orpress and thebowl ofthe shovel formed and the handle bent to proper shape.

In the manufacture of th ese ash-shovels there is no Wood, rivets, or solder employed, the han- 3o dle will never get loose, the lip on the front isdouble, and so pressed between the meshes of the Wire-cloth as to be stiff, iirm, and durable, and as the entire bowl oi' the shovel'isl a,

sieve ashes may be rapidly and thoroughly 35 sifted and the unbnrned coals returned to the y fire, which will be a great saving of fuel anda blessing to the poor.

The material of which these shovels are constructed may be previously galvanized; but I 4o sheet-metal tip, substantially as and for lthe 5o purposes described.

LEANDER S. BROWN.

Vi tnesses JAMES H. PORTE, VALTER REEsE. 

